Research Projects

Following a successful test operation in Bremen, researchers are investigating how the news and information app molo.news can be made available throughout Germany. The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is providing 1.5 million euros of funding for the project.

This project analyzes how genealogy platforms shape and change media practices related to memory. It combines a mapping of platforms and an analysis of affordances with research into the lived experiences of users.

Project management: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp (ZeMKI, University of Bremen), Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen (Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans Bredow Institute (HBI), Hamburg) Participating institutions: ZeMKI, University of Bremen, Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans Bredow Institute (HBI), Hamburg Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG) The fundamental aim of this research project is (…)

Project management: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp (ZeMKI, University of Bremen) External collaborations: Prof. Dr. Nick Couldry (LSE), Prof. Dr. Sonia Livingstone (LSE), Dr. Mark Taylor (University of Sheffield), Prof. Dr. Gina Neff (University of Oxford), Prof. Dr. Michaela Pfadenhauer (University of Vienna), Prof. Dr. Fred Turner (Stanford University) Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG) Over the (…)

The basic aim of this research project is to further develop the media diary software MeTag and the Q-Sort or free sorting software MeSort and, in doing so, to develop a model of good practice for the provision of research software in the field of media and communication.

The economic crisis of regional newspapers continues as local news apps have yet failed to establish themselves. Researchers and software developers of the Center for Media, Communication and Information Research and of the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) are now trying to go a new, much more experimental way: In co-creation, together with future users, they developed an innovative mobile news- and information-app for young people in the city and its surrounding areas.

Project management: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp Project staff: Johanna Möller, Anne Mollen Research association/cooperation: University of Tampere, Finland Funding institution: Helsingin Sanomat Foundation The political implications of media technologies have been discussed by society as a whole since the revelations by whistleblower Edward Snowden about the spying activities of the NSA, GCHQ and, not least, (…)

Project management: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp (ZeMKI-Lab “Mediatization and Globalization”) Research network/cooperation: SPP 1505 “Mediatized Worlds” Funding institution: DFG With advancing mediatization and in particular the mediatization push of digitalization, more and more diverse possibilities are emerging to create and experience communitization through media. After the focus of research in the first two phases of (…)

Research network/cooperation: Sub-project of the DFG Collaborative Research Center 597 ‘Statehood in Transition’ at the University of Bremen Project management: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp (ZeMKI-Lab “Mediatization and Globalization”) Project staff: Dr. Swantje Lingenberg, Dipl.-Pol. Johanna Möller, Dr. Anke Offerhaus, Anne Mollen, Monika Elsler The comparative analysis of the reporting of national newspapers in six European (…)